How do I shut down safari when force quit doesn't work either?

My Safai would not shut down, force quit didn't work either.  What to do?

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  • When forced quit doesn't work???

    What do I do when forced quit doesn't work?? This happens occasionally when something freezes, like Logic did today. I force quit, and wait... and wait... and nothing happens. I try and restart and it keeps coming up with the same window: Logout timed out, please force quit to continue or cancel.
    Anyways I hit force quit over and over and nothing happens. I resolve to holding the button and manually restarting the computer. How can I get this thing to force quit?!!
    - All updated
    - Repaired permissions
    - Repaired disk (nothing was wrong anyways)

    Funny you should ask as I had the EXACT same problem this afternoon.
    I had to do a hard restart.
    But, then I got the gray spinning startup.
    So, I had to restart from my backup drive (thank you SuperDuper!).
    Then, 5 minutes later my internal hard drive reappeared.
    Then, I restarted from my internal drive.
    I had this problem in April (I took notes) and Apple replaced my hard drive.
    Your mileage may vary.

  • Options when Force Quit doesn't work?

    My newly installed QuarkXpress 7.3.1 is not behaving nicely in my newly installed 10.5.2 on my new Intel iMac. Firstly, it sends a stream of errors to Console, mostly "<Error>: CGContextSetFillColorWithColor: invalid context l", of which I get thousands within a short while of opening Quark.
    But now it doesn't even want to quit. And it refuses to obey Force Quit. Are there any other persuaders I can try (never used Terminal but will give it a go if foolproof)?
    Simon

    sudo shutdown -h NOW
    That will for the machine to accept a shutdown command no matter what is happening. It may take awhile. Come back in an hour. If you get an error message saying can't shut down because something won't quit, then do a:
    ps -ax
    Identify the PID of what will not quit that is third party that you recognize.
    kill -15 PID
    where PID is the number of the offending process.
    Repeat until you can get the process to disappear from ps -ax.
    As for being foolproof, any data that isn't saved on a killed process won't save.

  • Force Quit Doesn't Work/Freezing, Crashing

    Oy. So I have to put this in context. Clutz that I am I dropped my Macbook Pro a year ago. Resulted in a cracked screen, screwed up optical drive and LED light/audio issues. Other than that it worked. It finally decided to clock out over the summer. Spent the money to get a new logic board(they pretty much gave me new computer and put my stuff on it). A few weeks after I got it back(and am now 4hrs away from nearest Apple store) It would freeze ocassionally(SBBD), no big deal, I'll force quit. Or reinstall that program(back then it was usually Mozilla Firefox, now it's kind of any program). As time has gone on it started freezing more frequently and force quit is no longer working. Had to look up what to do when force quit doesn't work, but the thing is, EVERYTHING freezes. I can usally click on a program(activity monitor) all I want, but it wont open. So this all results in having to force shut down, and it kills me inside to do that. Sooo I can wait until I'm back home and take this baby back to Apple, but I figured I'd give this a shot.
    Should have mentioned this, I recently uprgraded to Mountain Lion about a month ago, hoping it would help. Worked for a while...but no such luck.
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    Sibelius
    Mozilla Firefox
    Google Chrome
    iTunes
    Microsoft Word

    Forgot mention the important part. Was forced to force shutdown last night. Then I turned it back on. It got stuck on the white boot up page with Apple logo and loading circle for about 15 minutes. Fans were really load. Shutdown again and left it off all night. This morning I try it again and it makes an odd noise and till gets stuck on white screen for about five minutes Then it turns grey, and then it turns on.

  • My iPad shuts down safari when browsing

    My iPad shuts down safari when browsing

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    2. Try a reset. Hold the Sleep and Home button down for about 10 seconds until you see the Apple Logo

  • Imac won't shut down - asked to force quit programs

    Hi Everyone,
    I've had my iMac for about a year now. No issues until now. Recently when I try to shut down from the apple menu it doesn't do anything for a minute or so, then I get a pop up that asks to to quit a certain program or programs that are open. It asks me to force quit them. It seems to be anything I had open, like mail or safari. This never happened before. It would always just shut down. So, if I go back and quit all the open programs I think are open, then try to shut down, it still doesn't shut down. I then have to manually hold the power button to force it to shut down. When I quit all the programs, I don't get an task bar at the top to pick the apple icon to then shut down as well. Can anyone help with why this might be doing this recently and how to fix it? No new programs of any kind have been installed recently. I'm not real good at computers but I know something is not right with this now as it always would just shut down from the apple menu with no issues.
    Thanks in advance for your help!
    JB

    Thanks Kiraly...Here is a list of everything activity says is running...I don't know what this stuff means but I quit everything and do not have anything else that I opened up.
    2718 Activity Monitor JoeBoyne 1.2 6 15.25 MB 832.78 MB Intel
    76 AirPort Base Station Agent JoeBoyne 0.0 2 2.69 MB 747.92 MB Intel
    280 AppleSpell.service JoeBoyne 0.0 1 5.75 MB 602.05 MB Intel
    85 ATSServer JoeBoyne 0.0 2 4.59 MB 626.45 MB Intel
    1600 DashboardClient JoeBoyne 0.0 9 55.41 MB 861.41 MB Intel
    86 Dock JoeBoyne 0.2 4 11.42 MB 790.36 MB Intel
    2245 helpdatad JoeBoyne 0.0 2 5.92 MB 601.70 MB Intel
    119 iTunes Helper JoeBoyne 0.0 2 2.32 MB 732.13 MB Intel
    72 launchd JoeBoyne 0.0 3 492.00 KB 585.74 MB Intel
    23 loginwindow JoeBoyne 0.0 4 7.25 MB 806.81 MB Intel
    2701 mdworker JoeBoyne 0.0 4 7.49 MB 605.70 MB Intel
    83 pboard JoeBoyne 0.0 1 344.00 KB 586.63 MB Intel
    80 Spotlight JoeBoyne 0.0 2 2.11 MB 732.21 MB Intel
    2714 SyncServer JoeBoyne 0.0 2 3.96 MB 597.98 MB Intel
    87 SystemUIServer JoeBoyne 0.0 8 7.60 MB 781.84 MB Intel
    81 UserEventAgent JoeBoyne 0.0 3 1.75 MB 599.15 MB Intel

  • How can i stop the i tune pop force quit doesn't work

    hi ,
    please help " how can i stop the i tune pop force quit doesn't work"

    Refunds on downloaded software are virtually nonexistent.
    I have had cases where I purchase software on a physical disk. If I don't like the software I can uninstall it from my computer and sell it legally. Recouping most of my loss.

  • Since 2.2.1 upgrade, force quit doesn't work after an application freezes

    Sorry if this was posted before, but I couldn't find a post that matched my issue.
    Has anyone else noticed that since upgrading to 2.2.1 on the 3G, if an application freezes, force quit doesn't work. I have to do a hard reset inorder to get the OS to respond again. Even tried to just hold the power button to do a power off and it doesn't respond.
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  • Need help...Force Quit doesn't work & keep crashing HD b/c of it

    For a week now, I have been trying to re-download my iTunes library from the iTunes store. Turns out, the problem has to do with the amount of downloads they put in my queue, which causes iTunes to crash. But, when it does crash, Force Quit doesn't work UNTIL I am forced to unplug the hard drive it was writing to. This is BAD and could kill my hard drive (I've had to do this AT LEAST 20 times this week and have repaired it 4 times with DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro during the past week).
    Is there ANY way to get force quit to work without having to do this to the hard drive?? Seagate is no help as their phone just rings...no customer support avail even though hours say they are open. I am using 10.4.10 and a 500GB Seagate Pro External Hard Drive. I would put this in iTunes, but Force Quit is a Tiger thing. Off topic a bit, do you think iTunes would crash less if I downloaded to my internal HD instead (though, not really feasible as my internal couldn't fit all the downloads anyway)???
    Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

    The previous reply was correct -- the freeze you are experiencing has nothing to do with the number of songs in the iTunes queue. The problem is with your hard drive. The newer Seagate FreeAgent drives (and all FreeAgent Pros) use a chipset that does not play well with recent versions of MacOS. I am not sure if Seagate uses two individual chipsets: one for USB and one for eSATA (assuming you are using a FreeAgent Pro), or simple one that supports both protocols, but that is the causing your mysterious freeze.
    I have spent weeks troubleshooting this very same problem and have yet to find a solution. Right now, I am in standby mode until Apple releases 10.4.11 which is said to have fixed "issues with USB devices." I have tried many brands of external drives (Western Digital, Hitachi, roll-your-own, pre-FreeAgent Seagates) and they all work fine. I have even removed the drives from the FreeAgent Pro drives and put them into roll-your-own USB enclosures and they work fine. The problem is with the Seagate FreeAgent interface chip itself.
    Hopefully you can still return your new FreeAgent drive to the store you bought it from. I am a strong believer in Seagate drives and use them extensively at home and work (over a dozen externals total) and the FreeAgents have caused more trouble than I've ever experienced with an external device. As of now, I am using a Western Digital 750GB MyBook drive until Seagate or Apple can find a permanent fix for the issue.
    That being said, the FreeAgents have worked fine in the past and only recently have begun to have issues, so if you can, try rolling back to an earlier version of 10.4 and try again. Being a software developer, that option wasn't available to me.

  • Mdnsresponder will not quit.  Consumes above 100% CPU and kills my battery.  Also causes my fan to run constantly and my computer to get extremely hot.  Force quitting doesn't work.  It just comes back.

    The mdnsresponder will not quit.  Consumes above 100% CPU and kills my battery.  Also causes my fan to run constantly and my computer to get extremely hot.  Force quitting doesn't work.  It just comes back.   I posted about this earlier and never got an answer.  Somebody, please help. 
    Thanks.

    mDNSResponder is a background process that runs all the time. If you kill it, it's relaunched automatically.
    Please launch the Console application and select "system.log" from the file list. Enter "mDNSResponder" (without the quotes) in the search field. Post a sample of the log messages in the Console window -- only one example of each repeated message, please.

  • How can I shut down iPhoto when unresponsive?

    I have received a pop up window that "The photo library needs to be upgraded to work  with this version of iPhoto" as I attempted to download a photo from Facebook. I attempted to opt to "Quit" this option seeing as I did not plan to available as this update was being performed. I clicked onto the "Quit" button and now iPhoto is frozen, pinwheel reeling, cannot Quit iPhoto, no force quit option available. Afraid to turn off the computer (running Lion OSX) in case my photo library will become corrupted. Help! How do i shut down this app safely????

    Thank you, i will try this option. Only thing is i did read another person having this problem and he did shut down his computer and now his photo library in unaccessible!!! Ugh. I do have an external back up hard drive. I sure hope that my photos are on there to reload into iPhoto!!!!
    I did try to place my mouse over the iPhoto icon @ the dock and held down the control key with no results in shutting down the application.

  • Macbook won't shut down unless i force quit!

    Hi my  macbook won't shut down unless i force shutdown.... it's been like this for a while so i hardly ever shut it down..... can't even close the case as it will then just continually shutdown and re-start itself on n on n on, whilst shut!!!
    It does occasionally shut down successfully ...... but today it shut down fine.... 1st time i tried it for well over a week! But then refused to start up! 1st time it's done this!! it took over two hours to convince it to start!!! Any thoughts would be massively appreciated ..... apple care run out and ZERO funds to have fixed !!! : (( v sad as i love my mac and can't do without it!!!

    shelbell508 wrote:
    I tried to run the disk utility and it wouldn't run properly
    Exactly what did you do to run Disk Utility and exactly what happened up to the freeze?
    I called some place to ask for advice and they said it could be my logic board???
    That's an easy answer to give but not necessarily the correct one.
    If you have the system restore disc that came with your Mac, boot with that disc in the Mac while holding down the "D" key. That will invoke hardware diagnostics. Run those several times to investigate the possibility that your Mac has a hardware flaw.

  • Leopard hangs - have to power off  - force quit doesn't work

    On several occasions Leopard has hung - try to run activity monitor to kill problem app - I get the bouncing icon but nothing else. force quit does not work on it. Can't log off - can put to sleep, but resumes in same hung state. Once I hard power off and restart, a I get a series of beeps, not just one and a normal start - no error messages. Other programs also would not respond to force quit including parallels desktop.

    Hi,
    Have had same problem here. My iMac is only a few days old, and barely anything on it before the upgrade from tiger to leopard.
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  • Mail doesn't shut down; need to Force Quit

    Hi
    Recently the Mail on my iMac has stopped shutting down (Alt-Q, or Mail/Quit, etc). To stop it, I need to Force Quit. Mail seems to go out to places I send to, and mail comes back in, but it won't shut down.
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    I've been having this problem for several months. In fact, I was experiencing it on my G5 tower, under 10.5.6, and I had hoped that replacing the entire computer with a new iMac, and a brand new operating system, would make it go away. No Joy. Apparently the MIgration Assistant helped the problem migrate to my new machine.
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    Specifics: I can't quit mail normally on the desktop which was migrated from my old machine. 'Quit' grays out in the menu, but the program doesn't stop running. I can compose, send, and retrieve email as if nothing is wrong. This problem does not appear when I create a new desktop account and log in on that one. Mail quits normally on that desktop. But on the migrated desktop, I can never quit normally. Force quit will work, though, which is an improvement over 10.5.6, when I had to do a hardware reset.

  • IPhoto '09 won't shut down unless I force quit

    I am trying to thin out my library and am manually copying them to an external drive. When I then move event to the trash and empty trash, iPhoto locks up and will not close. After I force quit, all the events are back in the library, but grayed out. Please HELP. What am I doing wrong, or is there a way to quickly back up the entire library to an external drive?

    I followed your advice and dragged the library onto the back up drive, and it copied it all over, but is it just running it from that location now?
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    _Launch iPhoto again to make sure you have your pictures. If you do, then you can empty your trash which will free up the disk space.
    <hr>
    Back to your backup question.
    By moving your iPhoto Library to an external drive, and then deleting the Library from the computer, you now have your iPhoto Library in one and only one location, the external drive.
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    To avoid that from happening you want to have a backup. What is a backup? A backup is a copy of your information. By having your information in two different locations, if one location stops working (failed drive, lightening, cats) you have a second location where the data is stored.
    For VERY important information that you never want to lose, you should consider having even more backups like on DVD or even another hard drive that you disconnect from the computer and store somewhere safe (like inside a fire-proof safe). You would update that additional backup every now and then.
    Here is how I have my computer setup.
    _Macintosh HD -- This is my computer. It has all my files minus iTunes, iPhoto, and Movies.
    _Media Drive -- This is my 1st external hard drive. It contains all my iTunes, iPhoto, and Movies. (I did this because my Macintosh HD was getting so full because of all the iTunes, iPhoto, and Movies content.)
    _Time Machine Backup Drive -- This is my 2nd external hard drive. The Time Machine program performs automatic backups of both the Macintosh HD and the Media Drive to this drive.
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    I have a "my passport" drive, but I've been warned that they are a bit sketchy.
    I don't own a passport myself though I've seen them. Have you actually had an issue with it or is this someone else's reports of issues? If you have had issues with your drive you should contact the drive's manufacturer to get those resolved (assuming it's in warranty still).
    If you have doubts or have had recurrent issues with one of your external drives, you might want to consider replacing it with something you do trust. Why keep a drive you think is bad? Hard drives are really quite inexpensive these days. You can get big drives for relatively little. Examples from Apple's website (but you can buy drives at pretty much any store that sells electronics).
    If your shopping for a backup drive go for the largest one you can afford (you can always use more space because you will eventually fill it up). Also going for a faster connection like Firewire is a good thing to look for, though certainly not required.
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